Psychiatric medications, science, marketing, psychiatry in general, and occasionally clinical psychology. Questioning the role of key opinion leaders and the use of "science" to promote commercial ends rather than the needs of people with mental health concerns.

Friday, August 17, 2007

The Wiki Scanner story is simply irresistible. Pharmalot let us know that AstraZeneca had changed the Wikipedia entry for Seroquel (story via the Times of London). Read more at Wired and Forbes. But, why wait around for a journalist to break the story when you can do it yourself? The Wiki Scanner site is a wonderful tool for amateur sleuths such as myself. Wanna see which companies made changes to Wikipedia entries? Here's just one example: Edelman PR made a change to the Wikipedia for Celecoxib (Celebrex) and for Viagra.

I'm far too short on time to continue this exercise, but I encourage all of you to hit the Wiki Scanner site and see what you can find.

"discussions of clinical psychology?" when coercive psychiatry sees people/patients/prisoner as purely chemical equations, and psychology sees people as patients, patients as people. I think we are going to have trouble with the conflicting views of what is responsible for human behaviour.

Anonymous: "has this blog simply become an anti-psychiatry blog? Where are the discussions of clinical psychology?"

I don't think the subject matter has changed very much since the blog started. Psychology makes an occasional appearance, but the incredible world of marketing/science/psychiatry begs to be written about. And I never said anything about "antipsychiatry" -- I'm anti- scientific misconduct and anti-marketing mixing with science.

Pharmafraud -- Great! There is likely a treasure trove of information waiting to be discovered.

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About Me

I'm an academic with a respectable amount of clinical experience and no drug industry funding. Given my lack of time, don't expect multiple daily updates. Certain things about clinical psychology, the drug industry, psychiatry, and academics drive me nuts, and you'll probably pick up on these pet peeves before long...